Brooklyn's Promised Land : The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York /

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In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on Hunterfly Road. This book reconstructs the social history and national significance of this place.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wellman, Judith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
African Americans.
HISTORY > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Noirs americains > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > History.
New York (State) > New York > Weeksville.
New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Histoire.
New York (N.Y.) > History.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > History.
Weeksville (New York, N.Y.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on Hunterfly Road. This book reconstructs the social history and national significance of this place.
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9780814725283

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